Cell phones forum: 4G does not exist!

What is that complaint- two years old by now? Besides that, what precisely would you plan on doing if there actually were 100mbps mobile data connections?

Hint: the currently 'faux' G offerings works just fine.

There might be no standard called 4G, but it surely exists. How else could the biggest Dutch provider roll it out at the moment. You can use it in Amsterdam right now.

http://www.kpn.com/prive/4G.htm?campaignid=ps599

Sorry, it's a Dutch site, please use Google translate if you don't believe me.

Kees

From the ITU (http://www.itu.int/net/pressoffice/press_releases/2010/48.aspx#.URqkwfKWKxk):

"As the most advanced technologies currently defined for global wireless mobile broadband communications, IMT-Advanced is considered as "4G", although it is recognized that this term, while undefined, may also be applied to the forerunners of these technologies, LTE and WiMax, and to other evolved 3G technologies providing a substantial level of improvement in performance and capabilities with respect to the initial third generation systems now deployed."

So it's 4G officially, although not the most advanced version.
However, people like the OP who seem to prefer to use 3G until IMT-A is offered where they live (because they don't approve that marketing people call something else "4G"), should certainly do so!

Kees

...is more of a marketing gimmick then anything else. Don't try to read more into it.